A circuit, waveguide, and spatial power combiner for millimeter-wave amplification

Authors
Saavedra, CE Wright, W Compton, RC
Citation
Ce. Saavedra et al., A circuit, waveguide, and spatial power combiner for millimeter-wave amplification, IEEE MICR T, 47(5), 1999, pp. 605-613
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Eletrical & Eletronics Engineeing
Journal title
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
ISSN journal
00189480 → ACNP
Volume
47
Issue
5
Year of publication
1999
Pages
605 - 613
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9480(199905)47:5<605:ACWASP>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
A new concept for a millimeter-wave amplifier that uses circuit, waveguide, and spatial power combining is demonstrated. The passive array has a free- space-to-microstrip insertion loss below -1.5 dB from 30 to 44 GHz, Small-s ignal measurements of the active array reveal an average gain of 5 dB from 41 to 46 GHz and a maximum gain of 6.4 dB at 45.6 GHz, Large-signal measure ments reveal a linear power gain of 2 dB and an output power of 23.7 dBm at the l-dB compression point at 44 GHz.